lol, Samesies... throwing this in the pre-sleep mix of audiobooks and misc lectures... a dude on yt did a quality 5 hr summary/explication of "blood Meridian." highly , highly recommended also.
🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵 Professor Michael Sugrue studied with him at Yale and many other fortunate people who were really interested in literature and humanities. Tony Morrison was another one. RIP 🙏 ❤️ Professor Harold Bloom and Professor Michael Sugrue. I still pay for Professor Sugrue's channel. I am grateful for this channel.
Extraordinary, incredible, unrivalled... So much hyperbole. Along with overthetop assertions about Shakespeare thinking that women are superior to men esp in matters of love. From anyone else, these wd be dismissed forthwith but it is a tribute to Prof Bloom's greatness that his personal views can truly masquerade as universal ones. Enchanting video!
On the subject of Romeo and Juliet: There is much that I do not understand about what we call love. What is the nature of what Romeo and Juliet feel for each other? They are teenagers...hormones raging etc. Can they, in such a sort acquaintance , feel anything more than physical attraction to one another? Can what they feel be called mature Love? Yes, Juliet's words are beautiful expressions of desire and admiration and devotion. But what is she really devoted to? What is the basis of her admiration ? Is it not Romeo's beauty and virility and desire for her? Does she, yet, even Know Romeo well enough to be able to declare her LOVE for him? Isn't there more to love than this?
I found the Wittgenstein quotation at 25 minutes. I don’t hear in it an answer to my question. How can Juliet, a girl of 13 ,feel such a profound and solid love for someone who she has known for so short a time ? Bloom says that she is so mature..but where is the evidence? Words are cheap. An infatuated 13 year old girl can be brought to ecstatic rapturous expressions of praise . “ I will follow him. ..follow him wherever he may go.There isn’t an ocean so deep, a mountain so high it could keep me away .” Little Peggy March. 1963.
@@renzo6490Sounds like you already have insights into "Romeo and Juliet" with your reference to "I Will Follow Him" (English lyrics by Norman Gimbel).
This is one of the audio courses produced by the Modern Scholar company (TMS for short), I urge you to look for more of their courses on RUclips, they have some of the best professors. They are also available for purchase if you want something specific that is not available for free.
Excellent upload. I've always thought Bloom makes a good dramatist himself, in that he gets pretty dramatic and a tad hyperbolic about praising the subjects he is passionate about, but with 8 hours to listen to I'm sure he has many good points to make.
If you ever considered Romanticism as the apex of Western literature, you could make a good case for the literary "theory" subscribed to by Bloom. You certainly can't be limited by the formalism of "structure" or the somewhat circular abstractions made by "deconstructive" ideas or similar. Bloom's is a dry, and acquired, sort of emotional analysis, by my lights. I understand the term "inwardness" as describing his basic view of literature. That is Hamlet, without a doubt.
C'mon Harold! Hamlet's fatal flaw is that he doubts when he should not. That is crystal clear. Doubting when he should have confidence leads to the slaughter of the last scene.
Hamlet is annoyed by his mother. It’s quite common. It takes 5 acts to straighten things out, but they are settled to everyone’s satisfaction. Maybe not Horacio’s.
One of my dreams is to have devoted my life to being a Shakespeare actor….not for fame or riches as many greats have betrayed to Hollywood….just for the bard…..is there anyone who can understand this !
He loves to say 'the greatest moment in ALL of Shakespeare'. . . someone should count the number of times he says this. This 'I know everything' approach wouldn't have gone down so well in a British University. And his small errors of understanding and pronunciation jump out when he is acting so omniscient.
Some of this is disappointing. For example, he claims that Caesar’s lack of concern for his safety when going to the Senate is due to Caesar’s awareness that his death could paradoxically lead to great things - the coming to power of Augustus, his relative, who will inaugurate the rule of emperors bearing his own name Caesar. How would he know that any of this would come about rather than just assume that he will not have this great lineage of emperors bearing his name? Unfortunately Bloom is imposing in an undisciplined way his own hubristic interpretations of Shakespeare’s works.
It seems a little shallow to me, like which people are nice and which are not. What seems more important is what Stanley Cavell covered in books like "Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare" or "Must We Mean What We Say?," taking them as universal temptations leading to dysfunction.
A thousand thank yous for this gift. The magnificent Harold Bloom's endless love for Shakespeare is beyond compare.A delight and treasure.
This is the single greatest thing I've ever found on RUclips.
I've been putting this on to sleep to then staying up all night to listen
lol, Samesies... throwing this in the pre-sleep mix of audiobooks and misc lectures... a dude on yt did a quality 5 hr summary/explication of "blood Meridian." highly , highly recommended also.
Same
I'm working cable
Playing this in the background
At every job
Any chance I get
Damn! I wanted to sleep.
To the illustrious late Professor Bloom, thank you. Magnificent and inspiring presentation.
Omggg thank you SO MUCH for uploading these! What did I do to deserve this feast!?
What did "we" get to deserve this? Greatness never dies.
🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵
Professor Michael Sugrue studied with him at Yale and many other fortunate people who were really interested in literature and humanities.
Tony Morrison was another one.
RIP 🙏 ❤️ Professor Harold Bloom and Professor Michael Sugrue. I still pay for Professor Sugrue's channel.
I am grateful for this channel.
Today I'm a blessed man in finding this & will be ever more.
Thank you professor Bloom.
Thank you sooooooo much for uploading this treasure for all of us to enjoy.
Wow. Had no idea we had these! Thank you immensely for sharing them!
OMG thank you so much for uploading these lectures series
We don't deserve this. It will not be wasted
If it will not be wasted, then we do deserve it! Enjoy!
@@Nero.Was.Also.Pharaoh Fair enough.
💯 CORRECT
Well said
Extraordinary, incredible, unrivalled... So much hyperbole. Along with overthetop assertions about Shakespeare thinking that women are superior to men esp in matters of love. From anyone else, these wd be dismissed forthwith but it is a tribute to Prof Bloom's greatness that his personal views can truly masquerade as universal ones. Enchanting video!
What a resource, thank you for uploading ❤
This video is aaa rather extraordinary set of lectures. That is to say that I enjoy it quite dearly.
To adapt Falstaff, Shakespeare is not just a genius in himself, but the cause of genius in others
Magnificent. Thank you, Professor.
Thanks for uploading. Sharing with my students 👏
These are superb. Thank you.
Oh my Gawd. What a treasure trove🙏
What an incredible channel.
Wonderful insight. So much passion for his work and such sensitivity to literary voice. Thanks for uploading.
Fantastic. Deeply meaningful discussion.
Best eight hours on RUclips
Unbelievable! I am forever changed.
Million thanks- from Tbilisi,Georgia!
Brilliant . Thanks so so much
Thank you so much! This is a treasure!
No freaking way. You are the goat
Thank you very very much.
On the subject of Romeo and Juliet:
There is much that I do not understand about what we call love.
What is the nature of what Romeo and Juliet feel for each other?
They are teenagers...hormones raging etc.
Can they, in such a sort acquaintance , feel anything more than physical attraction to one another?
Can what they feel be called mature Love?
Yes, Juliet's words are beautiful expressions of desire and admiration and devotion.
But what is she really devoted to?
What is the basis of her admiration ?
Is it not Romeo's beauty and virility and desire for her?
Does she, yet, even Know Romeo well enough to be able to declare her LOVE for him?
Isn't there more to love than this?
The professor's reading of the Wittgenstein quote near the beginning of this lecture answers your question.
I found the Wittgenstein quotation at 25 minutes.
I don’t hear in it an answer to my question.
How can Juliet, a girl of 13 ,feel such a profound and solid love for someone who she has known for so short a time ?
Bloom says that she is so mature..but where is the evidence?
Words are cheap.
An infatuated 13 year old girl can be brought to ecstatic rapturous expressions of praise .
“ I will follow him. ..follow him wherever he may go.There isn’t an ocean so deep, a mountain so high it could keep me away .”
Little Peggy March. 1963.
@@renzo6490Sounds like you already have insights into "Romeo and Juliet" with your reference to "I Will Follow Him" (English lyrics by Norman Gimbel).
Brilliant and profound.
Thank you!
Magnificent, extraordinary
-Bloom
Bless you, my dear
This is extraordinarily good. Thank you
Bravo, Professor Harold Bloom. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I would have loved to have seen Paul Roebus play Othello!! Wouldn't that have been divine?
Oh my God!!!! Who is this guy!!!! Best time I’ve spent with someone in years!!!
Check out one of his 100 books, particularly a great place to start is The Western Canon. Amazing mind. Read in 26 languages.
This is deeply appreciated
The Master Speaks Again! Oh how the dead can never die.
Man does it again! Thank you!
Much is gracias. I will binge. 😘
i think that he would be happy that we are still listening to him
thanks because without this i wouldn't have understood a lot of things
Where do these lectures come from? How were you able to make the audio so clear? In any case, thank you.
This is one of the audio courses produced by the Modern Scholar company (TMS for short), I urge you to look for more of their courses on RUclips, they have some of the best professors. They are also available for purchase if you want something specific that is not available for free.
Thank you for uploading this!
Excellent upload. I've always thought Bloom makes a good dramatist himself, in that he gets pretty dramatic and a tad hyperbolic about praising the subjects he is passionate about, but with 8 hours to listen to I'm sure he has many good points to make.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy if I could say how much--Shakespeare
where is this from? Never heard about it!! What an amazing find, thank you very much.
Thank you so much!
"Ask for tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man!" Absolute tragedy strangely intensified with understatement.
thank u so much!
Harold Bloom was very clever
Best RUclips channel, bar none.
If you ever considered Romanticism as the apex of Western literature, you could make a good case for the literary "theory" subscribed to by Bloom.
You certainly can't be limited by the formalism of "structure" or the somewhat circular abstractions made by "deconstructive" ideas or similar.
Bloom's is a dry, and acquired, sort of emotional analysis, by my lights.
I understand the term "inwardness" as describing his basic view of literature.
That is Hamlet, without a doubt.
dude youre an archeologist...
??
Lol
No, u r
“He mixes his melancholia with his wild, ironic humour” 1:35:05
Thank you very very much
Love Harold Bloom
Exquisite
C'mon Harold! Hamlet's fatal flaw is that he doubts when he should not. That is crystal clear. Doubting when he should have confidence leads to the slaughter of the last scene.
Or that he doubts not of himself. Much more of a "fatality".
He is in fact supremely confident in his convictions.
hey chief, pretty sure Harold won't be responding any time soon...
Hamlet is annoyed by his mother. It’s quite common. It takes 5 acts to straighten things out, but they are settled to everyone’s satisfaction. Maybe not Horacio’s.
yes..looed four decades for something like this...
The motherlode!!!!
Mil gracias, Babosa más estimado
Has he discussed "Queen Alexandra And Murry"? Unfortunately it barely saw the light of day as it closed in Egypt.
Amazing find. TY
Thank you
Thanks.
Thank you !
I love this so much.
My god this this is fantastic !!!!!!
When someone passes me the aux chord
The 'ur-Hamlet' of the old German folk play, of murder (titled 'brudenmord'?
(Ie, 'brother murder')?
excelente aporte, una lástima que no esté subtitulado al castellano, felicitaciones !!!
what year is this from - why such different voice?
Thanks a billion!!!!
Can we get some context?
These are a series of lectures he did for some Audible thing.
@oakus8503
He was on with Brian Lamb and C- Span, Poltics & Prose, before more disasters began in all areas.
Unbelievable. Thanks
banger lovely tysm
Ihope the lord never deprive us of you sir and the wonderfull author thang god for technology.
One of my dreams is to have devoted my life to being a Shakespeare actor….not for fame or riches as many greats have betrayed to Hollywood….just for the bard…..is there anyone who can understand this !
I would have loved to have seen Paul Roebus play "Othello." Would not that have been divine?
Paul Robeson???
Thankyou ❤
Magnificent
Well done
Does Hamlet break the 4th wall?
Thank you.
It's always sad to see one play the servant to the superlative. It reeks of the desperation to grasp the ineffable.
Thanks 👍🏽
Oh, I thought it was Alastair Sim!
He loves to say 'the greatest moment in ALL of Shakespeare'. . . someone should count the number of times he says this. This 'I know everything' approach wouldn't have gone down so well in a British University. And his small errors of understanding and pronunciation jump out when he is acting so omniscient.
Some of this is disappointing. For example, he claims that Caesar’s lack of concern for his safety when going to the Senate is due to Caesar’s awareness that his death could paradoxically lead to great things - the coming to power of Augustus, his relative, who will inaugurate the rule of emperors bearing his own name Caesar.
How would he know that any of this would come about rather than just assume that he will not have this great lineage of emperors bearing his name?
Unfortunately Bloom is imposing in an undisciplined way his own hubristic interpretations of Shakespeare’s works.
Blah blah blah.
It seems a little shallow to me, like which people are nice and which are not. What seems more important is what Stanley Cavell covered in books like "Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare" or "Must We Mean What We Say?," taking them as universal temptations leading to dysfunction.
Lol. Your analysis is conclusory garbage.
THANKS THANKS THANKS 😶😶😶
thanks :)
2:41:00
PS i thing that William Shakespear did find that elusive woman the perfict the British people his audience.
😊i like his comments but I think the quotes should be read by a Shakespearean actor.
Lets gooooooo
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Dude this is huge
i stopped here 5:01:08
Thanks for the info
Thank you for sharing that, truly
That's nice.
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Shakespeare over Milton? Nope. Lol. Just playin
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